How to Use meat in a Sentence

meat

noun
  • The restaurant serves a variety of meats.
  • The real meat of the book is found in its discussion of his economic plan.
  • To make the filling: To grind the pork, make sure the meat is very cold.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Mind you, there are six more packs of cheese in the fridge, and deli meat.
    — Maxwell Rabb, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Or use kitchen shears to cut through the shell to access the crab meat.
    — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Thick scents of pot, incense, and grilling meats filled the air.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • Once the meat changes color, remove it from the heat and drain it.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2024
  • But put away that knife and fork to get the job done and pick up these claws to tear the meat to shreds.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Then scrape the meat out of the claws with your fingers or a table knife.
    — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Revelers parked their cars along the side of the road, and grilled meat and drank.
    — John Eligon, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The two types of iron in food are: Heme iron is found in meat, fish, and poultry.
    — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Pull the meat off the bones to serve it and freeze leftover bones in a zipper bag.
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
  • So, the thing about meat is that it’s connected to bones.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Smoke rose from the butchered meat that lay grilling on wooden racks.
    — Collins Chilumba Sampa Gulshan Khan, New York Times, 6 July 2023
  • As soon as the meat hit the grill, customers were begging to buy it, Plork said.
    — Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Prepare the pork: Rinse and dry meat well with a clean towel.
    — The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Click here for the full graphical feast; or click here to get straight to the meat.
    — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The brain can be described as thinking meat—but so can the rest of us.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The earthy-herbaceous scent of cumin- and rosemary-tinged meat hangs richly in the air.
    — Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • Separate the chunks of meat from the vegetables and set the meat aside.
    — Lynda Balslev, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • And the protein in eggs are as good or better than in meat.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Very even heating across the bottom of the pan led to an even browning on the meat.
    — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Grocery prices, led by meat and eggs, rose 1.3%, while the cost of food away from home climbed 3.9%.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The meat will be cooked fresh at the farm and will be handed out warm, smoked and seasoned.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
  • There was old food debris on a meat slicer and knives stored on a wall rack.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Just place it on the meat, press the handle firmly, and repeat.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The Rec-Tec 590 did a great job grilling and smoking meat in our testing.
    — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2023
  • There was still plenty of meat on the bone, story-wise.
    — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2024
  • For all the rest of the cuts, insert your knife under the hide and cut parallel to the meat or away from the meat.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This Saturday market has been going on since 1753 and showcases local produce, meats, flowers, cheese, baked goods, plants, soaps, and more.
    — Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025

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